Improvement in fences



A. INGALLS.

FENCE. No.175,99Z. Patented Apr111,1876.

NAPETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASmNGToN. n c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED INGALLS, OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS.

IMPROVEMENT IN FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 175,992, dated April 11, 1876; application filed February 17, 1876.

. described.

In the aceompan yin g drawings, making part of this speciiieation, Figure 1 represents a perspective view; Fig. 2, a side view; and Fig. 3, an end View.

In the figures, A and A represent the contiguous panels ofa portable fence. These panels are made by nailing boards or rails to npright slats, as is usual. D represents the upright slats. B and C represent thefence-posts, which act as braces, both laterally and longitudinally.

It will be seen that these braces set apart at their lower ends, and close upon the panels at their upper ends, thus forming lateral braces, and that they set one forward of the other at their lower ends, and bracing against each other.

Thus the fence is prevented from leaning laterally, or from pitching forward or backward longitudinally.

The panels and posts are bound together at their upper ends by means of the wire's d, and the panels at their lower ends by the wires e. The wires d pass around the posts B O, as seen, just beneath the top rails of the panels, and thus the panels hang upon the wire fastenings. The panels simply being confined together at their lower ends, and not to theposts, are allowed to hang in a vertical position.

By this arrangement of the several parts I make a cheap, secure, and durable portable fence.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the panels A A', connected together by the wire bands e,`of the inclined posts B O, sharpened at their ends and driven into the ground, and connected together and to the two adjacent panels by the wire d at the top, as setforth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 27th day of January, 1876.

ALFRED INGALLS.

Witnesses F. T. FIELD, G. INANCE. 

